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Oh yeah, I have no criticisms with how that project is being run. But obviously they still decided to launch it instead of working to upstream it.
by jolux 3y ago
Oh yeah, I have no criticisms with how that project is being run. But obviously they still decided to launch it instead of working to upstream it.
- biggestlou 3y agoPoint of clarification: we are fully open to upstreaming the installer in whole or in part and have been from the get-go.[^1] But the installer is a pretty radical departure from the current official installer. The official installer is written in Bash; the DetSys installer is written in Rust. The official installer targets fairly "standard" platforms; the DetSys installer has experimental support for things like the SteamDeck. And so on. We think it's perfectly okay to have that kind of distribution of labor in OSS, where core/upstream things need to be extremely stable and conservative while the community runs experiments and figures out what works and doesn't. [1]: https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer#the-future-of-the-installer https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer#...
- jolux 3y agoThe default installer doesn't even support uninstalling Nix, which was a real pain when I tried to do so. > We think it's perfectly okay to have that kind of distribution of labor in OSS, where core/upstream things need to be extremely stable and conservative while the community runs experiments and figures out what works and doesn't. I hope nothing I said suggested I didn't think this was ok. I really appreciate that the DetSys installer exists. I'm just not sure why anyone would use the default installer given that it does.